LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village
The official HHV page documents the electronic attendee/speaker badge assembly requirement, soldering, rework, and volunteer support.
SourceLayerOne 2026 · United States · 2026
LayerOne 2026 Three-Button Keyboard Badge
Assembled electronic keyboard badge with blinkies and UV-resin art
LayerOne 2026's electronic attendee and speaker badge was a three-button keyboard with blinkies and a self-printed UV-resin artwork layer. The official Hardware Hacking Village material says attendees assembled the electronic badge in the village, and the official wrap-up confirms the completed event badge and its hand-repair response.
EventLayerOne 2026
SeriesLayerOne
LocationPasadena Hilton, Pasadena, California
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
KRS
LayerOne's official 2026 wrap-up thanks KRS for the badge design.
Sourcemmca
LayerOne's official 2026 wrap-up thanks mmca for the badge design.
Sourcecharliex
LayerOne's official 2026 wrap-up thanks charliex for badge design and separately credits charliex for badge art.
SourceHolly
LayerOne's official 2026 wrap-up credits Holly with helping repair the electrical issue by hand.
Sourceriverside
LayerOne's official 2026 wrap-up credits riverside with helping repair the electrical issue by hand.
SourceLayerOne
Official LayerOne pages establish the completed May 23-24, 2026 Pasadena event and publish the badge's documented form, assembly context, and caveats.
SourceWhy It Mattered
It is a completed 2026 LayerOne electronic badge record with an unusually well-documented hands-on distribution model: the conference treated badge assembly, soldering, rework, and repair as part of the Hardware Hacking Village rather than only issuing a finished credential.
Hardware
Official sources identify electronic attendee and speaker badges assembled in the Hardware Hacking Village, a three-button keyboard, unspecified blinkies, and a self-printed UV-resin artwork layer. They do not identify a controller, LED type/count, power system, radio, display, connector, PCB stack-up, schematic, BOM, or production quantity.
Software & Apps
The current official badge-status page says 2026 badge information is still forthcoming. No source, binary, build instructions, flashing workflow, protocol, challenge implementation, or software license is claimed for this record.
Lore
The public Hardware Hacking Village round-up says M, charliex, and KRS prepared the badge for tinkering, with soldering and rework stations and volunteers available for beginners. The later official wrap-up credits KRS, mmca, and charliex for the design, identifies charliex for badge art, and says riverside and Holly helped fix an electrical issue across the badges by hand.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
assembly workflow
officially documented
Attendee and speaker electronic-badge assembly
LayerOne's Hardware Hacking Village page says both attendee and speaker badges were electronic and had to be assembled in the village.
Source
badge form and finish
officially documented
Three-button keyboard and UV-resin artwork layer
The official wrap-up describes the completed badge as a three-button keyboard with blinkies and a self-printed UV-resin artwork layer.
Source
on-site support
officially documented
Hardware Hacking Village soldering and rework support
LayerOne's official Hardware Hacking Village round-up says soldering and rework stations plus volunteers were available for attendees who wanted to tinker with the badge.
Source
post-production support
officially documented
Hand-repaired electrical issue
The official wrap-up says riverside and Holly helped fix an electrical issue with all badges by hand, without identifying the fault, exact repair, or attendee impact.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
electrical repair caveat
note
The official wrap-up says riverside and Holly helped fix an electrical issue with all badges by hand, but does not describe the fault, failure rate, repair method, timing, participant impact, or final reliability.
The record preserves a real build and repair constraint without inferring a root cause, systemic hardware defect, or attendee-facing failure beyond the official statement.
- Confidence
- official post-event report
- Status
- documented narrowly
- Timeframe
- LayerOne 2026
- Source note
- LayerOne 2026 Wrap-up! official post-event report.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No LayerOne 2026 badge image is published locally because the official event, Hardware Hacking Village, wrap-up, and badge-status pages reserve rights and do not pair a specific badge image with reusable license or permission basis, attribution, source URL, and processing provenance.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official event-page, wrap-up, or Hardware Hacking Village media without complete reuse rights.
- Confidence
- local project policy and official copyright notice
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and LayerOne 2026 official pages, all marked all-rights-reserved.
technical source gap
note
Official sources prove the electronic keyboard badge, assembly model, blinkies, UV-resin art layer, and repair response, but do not identify its controller, LEDs, power, radio, display, connectors, PCB files, schematic, BOM, firmware, binary, build process, challenge, or software license. The official badge-status page still says the 2026 information is forthcoming.
The catalogue records the verified artifact and hands-on event context without upgrading a visual or assembly description into unsupported electrical or software claims.
- Confidence
- official status page and post-event sources
- Status
- awaiting public badge archive
- Timeframe
- 2026 post-event source pass
- Source note
- LayerOne 2026 wrap-up, Hardware Hacking Village page, and official badge-status page checked 2026-08-03.
Resources
LayerOne 2026 badge software status
official status page · Official badge page currently saying that 2026 badge information is forthcoming; it does not yet publish a 2026 source, binary, build, or flashing archive.
LayerOne 2026 venue
official venue page · Official venue source for the May 23-24, 2026 Pasadena Hilton conference context.
LayerOne 2026 wrap-up
official post-event report · Official post-event source for the completed LayerOne 2026 event, its three-button keyboard badge with blinkies and self-printed UV-resin art layer, named design and art credits, and the hand-repair response to an electrical issue.
LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village
official badge assembly page · Official source stating that the 2026 attendee and speaker badges were electronic and had to be assembled in the Hardware Hacking Village, with soldering and rework support.
Sources
LayerOne: LayerOne 2026 Wrap-up!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official post-event source for the completed 2026 conference, the three-button keyboard form, blinkies, self-printed UV-resin artwork layer, KRS/mmca/charliex design credit, charliex badge-art credit, and riverside/Holly hand-repair credit.
LayerOne: Hardware Hacking Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for attendee and speaker electronic-badge status, required in-village assembly, hardware-hacking and surface-mount support, and the deliberately unrevealing 2026 badge section.
LayerOne: LayerOne Badge Software
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official 2026 badge-status source checked on 2026-08-03; it says badge information is forthcoming and exposes no 2026 source, binary, build, or flashing details.
LayerOne: Venue
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for the May 23-24, 2026 Pasadena Hilton location and date context.